Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Guillaume Legris wrote:
>> Hi dev folks,
>>
>> I developed a math plugin ("MathTex") to render LaTeX math expressions
>> in XWiki.
>>
>> Currently the plugin supports two formula renderer:
>> - The default one (contained in xwiki-plugin-mathtex-core.jar) is
>> LGPL and thus can be embedded in the XWiki packages
>> - The other one is GPL (powered by JMathTex) and gives better
>> results. It can used by adding the xwiki-plugin-mathtex-ext.jar to the
>> classpath and adding a parameter to the xwiki.cfg to override the
>> default renderer
>> (xwiki.plugins.mathtex.builder=org.thenesis.xwiki.plugin.mathtex.JMathTexFormulaImageBuilder)
>>
>>
>>
>> In order to work this plugin requires modifications of some parts of
>> the XWiki default classes/files:
>> - xwiki.cfg
>> - macros.txt/macros.vm
>> - struts-config.xml
>> - XWikiRightServiceImpl.java (privileges for actions)
>>
>> So an admin couldn't just grab it from the plugin zone and make it
>> work out-of-the-box.
>>
>> Hence I would like to propose this plugin for integration in XWiki
>> with two alternatives:
>> 1) Full integration
>> 2) Partial integration (macros, struts-config.xml,
>> XWikiRightServiceImpl.java changes) + users still have to load the
>> plugin jar(s) from the plugin zone.
>
> What Guillaume forgot to ask, what do we do with the plugin? Should it
> be part of the core? Should it be put on code.xwiki.org? Should we setup
> the xlets repository?
>
Guillaume, I think it would be better to become part of the official
platform, and I'll be maintaining it. Could you create a Jira issue and
attach the code to it, please?
Thanks.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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